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Head position control method and disk storage device

a technology of disk storage and position control, which is applied in the direction of maintaining head carrier alignment, recording information storage, instruments, etc., can solve the problems of large differential in eccentricity between disks, invariably occurring eccentricities, and different amounts of such deviations, so as to shorten the seek time

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-03-08
KK TOSHIBA
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The present invention provides a head position control method for driving a plurality of heads by a single actuator in order to at least read different disk faces. The method includes steps of calculating a servo control amount, controlling the actuator, calculating a differential velocity between the heads when switching from one to another, and performing feed forward control to reduce the differential and shorten the seek time. The technical effects of the invention include reducing positional errors, improving response time, and shortening the seek time.

Problems solved by technology

As illustrated in FIG. 27, in this disk device, eccentricity, in other words, misalignment between the disk center and the motor center causing the disk to rotate, causes a problem.
A problem then arises in that the amount of such deviation will be different in the respective disks 110, 112.
The cause of eccentricity of this kind may be from external shocks, thermal deformation, or the like.
Moreover, in a system where the recording of the servo signal is performed on individual disks before assembling the device, whereupon the device is then assembled, eccentricity will invariably occur and the differential in eccentricity between disks will be large.
However, this technology does not take into account initial velocity or initial current immediately after head switching.
However, since the initial speed is not “0”, then a corresponding disparity occurs.
This disparity creates a fluctuation upon arriving at the target position, and since this fluctuation takes time to be absorbed, it causes a lengthening of the seek time.
When switching heads, this sudden change in the current stimulates the resonance of the actuator, and is a cause of fluctuation.
However, even if several notch filters are used, the resonance frequency component cannot be reduced fully to zero, and the notch filter waveform cannot provide 100% correction of the actuator resonance characteristics.
Consequently, if there is a sudden step in the initial current u0 as illustrated in FIG. 29, fluctuation may occur, which in turn becomes a cause of delay in the seek time.

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Next, the correction trajectory generating section 60 shown in FIG. 7 is described, with reference to FIG. 8. This correction trajectory generating section 60 determines the initial velocity V0 and current step U1 from the eccentricity correction current. Thereupon, the section 60 generates a position correction trajectory and current correction trajectory by multiplying by a normalized correction trajectory which reduces this initial velocity and current differential to zero.

The section generating the difference between the eccentricity correction currents of the two heads is constituted by the eccentricity correction current table 46 and the current differential calculating section 48 which calculates the differential between the eccentricity correction currents of the two heads, before and after switching, similarly to FIG. 5 and FIG. 6.

As stated previously, eccentricity can be represented by a sinusoidal wave, and the eccentricity correction currents can also be taken as respect...

second embodiment

FIG. 9 illustrates a correction trajectory generating section 60 in FIG. 7. This correction trajectory generating section 60 determines the initial velocity V0 from the eccentricity correction current and multiplies this initial velocity by a correction trajectory which reduces the velocity to zero, thereby generating a position correction trajectory and a current correction trajectory corresponding to the magnitude of the initial velocity.

The section generating the difference between the eccentricity correction currents of the two heads is constituted by the eccentricity correction current table 46 and the current differential calculating section 48 which calculates the differential between the eccentricity correction currents of the two heads, before and after switching, similarly to FIG. 5 and FIG. 6.

As stated previously, eccentricity can be represented by a sinusoidal wave, and the eccentricity correction currents can also be taken as respective sinusoidal waves. This sinusoidal...

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Next, the correction trajectory generating section 60 shown in FIG. 7 is described with reference to FIG. 10. This correction trajectory generating section 60 determines the current differential U1 from the eccentricity correction current. Thereupon, it multiplies the current differential U1 by a correction trajectory which reduces the initial differential to zero, and hence generates a position correction trajectory and a current correction trajectory.

The section generating the difference between the eccentricity correction currents of the two heads is constituted by the eccentricity correction current table 46 and the current differential calculating section 48 which calculates the differential between the eccentricity correction currents of the two heads, before and after switching, similarly to FIG. 5 and FIG. 6.

As stated previously, eccentricity can be represented by a sinusoidal wave, and the eccentricity correction currents can also be taken as respective sinusoidal waves. Th...

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Abstract

A disk device has eccentric misalignment between a plurality of disk surfaces. In order to prevent transient phenomena due to differences in the eccentric trajectories during head switching, a head position control method performs feed forward control for a plurality of disk surfaces by application of the eccentricity correction current of respective heads, and when switching heads, predicts the velocity fluctuation or current step differential between heads from the eccentricity correction current, and thus corrects the control system to eliminate velocity fluctuation and current step differential.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1. Field of the InventionThe present invention relates to a head position control method and disk storage device for controlling the position of a read head or read / write head on a rotating storage disk, and more particularly, to a head position control method and a disk storage device mounted with two or more heads.2. Description of the Related ArtA disk storage device has a disk for storing data, a motor for rotating the disk, a head for recording and regenerating information onto the disk, and an actuator for moving the head to a target position on the disk. Typical disk storage devices of this kind are a magnetic disk device (hard disk drive, or HDD), or an optical disk device (DVD-ROM or MO).FIG. 26 is a compositional diagram of a conventional head position control system, and FIG. 27 is an illustrative view describing the eccentricity of the disk. In a magnetic disk device, a positional signal for detecting the head position is recorded onto the disk...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G11B5/596G11B21/08G11B7/085G11B7/095G11B21/10
CPCG11B5/556G11B7/0953G11B7/08529G11B5/59627G11B5/596
Inventor TAKAISHI, KAZUHIKO
Owner KK TOSHIBA